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The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has ordered screening of people arriving from African countries with outbreaks of Marburg, the highly contagious and deadly hemorrhagic viral fever. The order comes after a Ministry of Health warning about the disease, which has a 50-88% death rate and which has killed …

Philippine troops staged live-fire exercises with their U.S. counterparts in the Southeast Asian country’s largest military camp as part of army-to-army drills aimed at enhancing Manila’s defense capabilities against external threats. The drills come after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s decision in February to expand the United States’ access to his …

Donald Trump is due to be fingerprinted and photographed in a New York courthouse next week as he becomes the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges in a case involving a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s expected appearance before a judge in Manhattan …

Seventeen construction sites are worsening Hanoi’s constant traffic congestion, the capital’s transport department said Thursday. At a meeting on traffic safety and the reduction of congestion, the capital’s Department of Transport said it has cooperated with the traffic police division to perform checks on 37 congestion points. Congestion happens due …

Vietnam on Friday opposed Taiwan illegally having live fire drills at sea regions surrounding Itu Aba, part of Vietnam’s Spratly Islands, and requested Taiwan to not repeat its actions. “Taiwan organizing live fire drills at sea regions around Itu Aba, part of Vietnam’s Spratly Islands, is a serious violation on …

Britain on Friday said it had struck a deal to join an 11-country trans-Pacific trade pact which includes Japan and Australia as it looks to deepen ties in the region and build its global trade links after leaving the European Union. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain had agreed to …

E-commerce firm JD.com Inc is planning to spin off its property and industrial units and list them on the Hong Kong stock exchange in deals worth $1 billion each, two people with direct knowledge said on Friday. The plan marks the latest revamp in the Chinese technology sector after a …

Apple Inc persuaded a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal’s ruling that could imperil a $502 million verdict for patent licensing company VirnetX Inc in the companies’ long-running fight over privacy-software technology. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision from the …

Telecom service providers had to deploy extra personnel to work past noon to serve hundreds of thousands of people coming to verify phone numbers’ information, days before they might be locked. At 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, a MobiFone office in HCMC’s District 1 was still choke-full of people. Most of …

All 558 electric tourist cars in Cua Lo Town of central Nghe An Province will be suspended starting April 20 due to lacking vehicle registration. At a Wednesday meeting with businesses that offer electric tourist car services, Doan Tien Dung, chairman of Cua Lo, said authorities want electric tourist cars …